Importance of Brook Trout Restoration

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Introduction

• Importance of Brook Trout Restoration
• 1400 subwatersheds with extirpated brook trout
  populations

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Study Site
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Smith Creek Restoration
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Watershed Land Uses
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Riparian Land Uses
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Non-Point Pollution
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Smith Creek Spring Tributary
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Smith Creek Restoration6 inch transplanted wild
brook trout 6 months later
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Methods
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Rolling Maximum Comparisons
Wehrly, K.E., L. Wang and M. Mitro. 2007.
Field-Based Estimates of Thermal Tolerance
Limits for Trout Incorporating Exposure Time
and Temperature Fluctuation. Transactions of the
American Fisheries Society 136365-374.
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Climate Change Buffer

• Amount of air temperature increase each segment
  can withstand and still maintain current daily
  maximum temperatures if canopy cover was restored
  (80 shade)
• Segment One 2.2 C
• Segment Two 1.8 C
• Segment Three 1.3 C
• Segment Four 0.7 C
• Segment Five 0.5 C

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